TY - JOUR
T1 - Surgical site infections in Eastern Mediterranean region
T2 - a systematic review and meta-analysis
AU - Maleknejad, Abdulbaset
AU - Dastyar, Neda
AU - Badakhsh, Mahin
AU - Balouchi, Abbas
AU - Rafiemanesh, Hosein
AU - Al Rawajfah, Omar
AU - Rezaie Keikhaie, Khadije
AU - Sheyback, Mahmood
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Society for Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common and costly type of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) worldwide. Despite individual studies, there is also no clear statistics on the SSI prevalence rate in the East Mediterranean region. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of SSI in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Methods: This systematic review and meta-analysis were performed by searching three international databases (Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus) from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2018. The keywords used included ‘Prevalence’ OR ‘incidence’ OR ‘surgical site infection’ OR ‘wound infection’ OR ‘Postoperative Wound Infections’ and ‘Middle east’. The Hoy et al.’s tool was used to evaluate the quality of the articles. Result: Out of 889 initial studies, 40 studies from 12 countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region were included in the final stage of the study. Based on the results of random effect method, the overall prevalence of SSI in 137,452 patients was 7.9% (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 7.1, 8.8; I2=96.7%). The prevalence of SSI in cardiac surgery and general surgery wards was 10 and 9.2%, respectively. The prevalence of SSI was lower in women than in males, although this difference was related to caesarean section. Conclusions: Considering the high prevalence of SSI in the Eastern Mediterranean region, timely diagnosis, proper prevention and postoperative control are necessary in the region using the same international guides in all countries.
AB - Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common and costly type of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) worldwide. Despite individual studies, there is also no clear statistics on the SSI prevalence rate in the East Mediterranean region. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of SSI in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Methods: This systematic review and meta-analysis were performed by searching three international databases (Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus) from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2018. The keywords used included ‘Prevalence’ OR ‘incidence’ OR ‘surgical site infection’ OR ‘wound infection’ OR ‘Postoperative Wound Infections’ and ‘Middle east’. The Hoy et al.’s tool was used to evaluate the quality of the articles. Result: Out of 889 initial studies, 40 studies from 12 countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region were included in the final stage of the study. Based on the results of random effect method, the overall prevalence of SSI in 137,452 patients was 7.9% (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 7.1, 8.8; I2=96.7%). The prevalence of SSI in cardiac surgery and general surgery wards was 10 and 9.2%, respectively. The prevalence of SSI was lower in women than in males, although this difference was related to caesarean section. Conclusions: Considering the high prevalence of SSI in the Eastern Mediterranean region, timely diagnosis, proper prevention and postoperative control are necessary in the region using the same international guides in all countries.
KW - Eastern Mediterranean
KW - meta-analysis
KW - Prevalence
KW - surgical site infection
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U2 - 10.1080/23744235.2019.1642513
DO - 10.1080/23744235.2019.1642513
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31361182
AN - SCOPUS:85070259293
SN - 2374-4235
VL - 51
SP - 719
EP - 729
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
IS - 10
ER -